Section outline

  • Entrepreneurs

    Learning Intentions

    • Explore examples of enterprising people and their work (local / NZ / global).
    • Investigate the skills and attitudes of entrerprising people. 
    • Explore business purpose/goals/types/examples
    • Research pros & cons of business activities (eg multi-national, limited liability)

    Success Criteria
    • We can define an entrepreneur and describe the attributes of an entrepreneur
    • We can identify people with entrepreneurial attributes and name examples of entrepreneurial people
    • We have identified our own entrepreneurial strengths and areas to develop

    An entrepreneur has an idea and risks time, money and reputation putting the idea into action as a business.


    Activities

    1. Spend 3 minutes sharing what you know about 'entrepreneurs'.
      Then read web resources on enterprising people - find ones who are famous, very young, from NZ, etc.
      Share what you've learned that you didn't know before. Discuss whether you think you could be an entrepreneur and why.
       

       

     Other Resources

    Personality types

    For a team to work well together, it is helpful to understand each other's personality.
    One model of personality types suggests that there are 4 main types, as shown below:

    No one personality type is better than any other - the theory is that it's best to have a mixture of types.
    For example, if all members have 'Playful' personalities, they will have fun, but it's possible that goals are not achieved!